Across
- 2. A church official who leads a large group of Christians in a particular region
- 5. the state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations
- 6. the public worship of the church
- 7. leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- 8. sophia the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
- 9. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- 11. The act or process of rendering laws in written form
- 14. a container for holy relics
- 15. a soldier that is hired by a foreign army
- 17. orthodox church Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia
Down
- 1. code the body of Roman law collected by order of the Byzantine emperor
- 3. the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- 4. When a person is banned from the church by the pope or Patriarch
- 5. alphabet the alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages
- 10. ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in central and Eastern Europe
- 12. manuscript a handwritten book decorated with bright colors and precious metals
- 13. a representation or image of a sacred personage, often considered sacred itself
- 16. A Russian emperor